Antenna System Engineer

About The Role

Take the next step in your career as a Senior Antenna System Engineer in Ericsson Antenna Systems, where your strong competence will directly shape the performance and innovation of the cellular communication industry. In this role, you will influence our product technology compass, guide R&D efforts, and set industry benchmarks from within our organization. This role offers a platform to apply your comprehensive and deep technical knowledge, collaborate across functions, and drive technological leadership. As an expert, you will mentor peers, inspire creative problem-solving, and strengthen Ericsson’s competitive edge. Together, we will continue setting the standard for antenna systems worldwide.

What You Will Do

• Drive best in class system performance: with profound and extensive expertise in Active Antenna Systems, radiators, signal distribution networks, filters, materials, mechanical aspects, and EM simulation tools, align technology, product, and operational strategies for innovative antenna solutions; create customer system value; assess maturity and cost-effectiveness of technology for product; stay on the verge of industry trends and adopt relevant developments; identify disruptive innovations and explore emerging technologies to sustain leadership.
• Drive Portfolio Innovation: with a comprehensive system view of challenges and solutions, provide in‑depth technical proposals and systemizations for complex problems; assess portfolio break downs to sub functional technology levels in correlation to product KPI’s and industry benchmarking; identify portfolio harmonization and scalability maintaining product value proposition; participate in defining the direction of Ericsson’s R&D activities
• Influence with Technical Expertise: impact business by influencing the whole organization and teams, as well as the customer, to materialize next generation antenna driven solutions in the market. Acts as technical lead and advisor for investigations and upper management in Ericsson.
• Drive Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration: promote learning within Ericsson and across the organization; act as teacher/mentor to inspire others and enable their technical growth; develop personal competence; foster cross‑functional collaboration; participate in or lead communities of practice and external academic collaborations as relevant.

The Skills You Bring

• Antenna HW for cellular systems
• Comprehensive and deep understanding of the network level impact of the antenna features, which enables optimal architecture ideation and concept selection, specifically within the segment of Active Antenna Systems
• Extensive knowledge on market & industry requirements, Ericsson technical portfolio and competitor solutions
• Very deep understanding of Network KPI’s for Active Antenna Systems (AAS), beam configurations and correlation to antenna system architecture
• Highest expert level of competence in antenna system architecture, holistically and as a sum of its sub-functions.
• Knowledge of radiator solutions for full range of applications and goals.
• Competence in the design of the radiator’s radiating and feeding sections, as well as environment components: cavities, directors, decoupling structures
• Expertise in signal distribution architectures, technologies (transmission lines, materials) and component design (power dividers, couplers, phase shifters, impedance transformers, filters, to assure optimal joint performance with the antenna front side and ultimately to enable the achievement of high level KPIs.
• Competence in the selection of and design with materials and solutions: metals, PCBs, dielectrics.
• Perfect understanding of the mechanical aspects that enable feasible, effective component and system materialization to the highest industry standards: possibilities, performance and constraints of materials and processes.
• Antenna EM modeling & simulation tools
• Comprehensive knowledge of EM modeling and simulation tool possibilities that allow optimal antenna development.
• Personal skills
• Top level qualities as a leader: commitment, reliability, vision, creativity, flexibility, resilience.
• Excellent communication and influence skills.
• Confident fact-based decision‑making.
• Embraces accountability.
• Balances empathy and practical sense.
• Personifies integrity.

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that’s why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.

Primary location: Rosenheim, Germany.